Due to the COVID-19 emergency situation we have to deal with ongoing restrictions for exports to various countries. These restrictions vary alot and basically change on a daily basis. At the moment we can send big parcels to the USA but no smaller packages (1-3 LPs etc). Other way round: We can only send small parcels and packages (1-5 LPs) to Japan and Canada. NZ and Australia as well as many south east countries are still completely under restriction.

To make is a little bit easier for you and me, i deactivated the automatic PayPal check out. This way i can make sure that i am in the position to deliver to your country before you pay and we can review our options.

My Office and the Warehouse/Storage are at two different locations. - In order to leave the house as little as possible during the Covid-19 pandemic, i work at the home office and i will only collect orders on 2-3 days per week. This can cause a slight delay. Hope you understand this decission.

Ruin Nation is a one person DIY Punk Mailorder and not Amazon. Sometimes it can take 2 or 3 "Business Days" before i can reply but usually i am pretty damn fast. If you have trouble with your order, or order status, communication is the key and feel free to ask but always be patient!

Stay home, wash your hands, listen to records, read a book and take care of each other.

MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL - #396 May 2016

SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT: Maximum Rocknroll #396 is here, the May 2016 issue, the zines special edition! We’ve got over a dozen features on zines from all over planet Earth, each of them revealing a living print culture that is truly killer, absolutely vital and undeniably punk. Emmy Ramone talks about their zines Cretins of Distortion and the Mental Whiff, digging at the roots of human expression through punk in the Midwest and beyond; Alex Ratcharge conducts an interview with NUTS! fanzine: learn all about the long journey from Olympia to New York City and all the ink stains in between; Golnar Nikpour interviews the world’s number one fan of noisy and psychotic hardcore, Tom Mayhugh of General Speech.

Getting personal: Fluke fanzine celebrates its 25th anniversary and Burn Collector’s Al Burian talks about his music and his move from New York to Berlin. From the Bay Area we have As You Were, a comic zine anthology based out of San Francisco from label/publisher Silver Sprocket; Not Shit, a skate fanzine dedicated to the punk/DIY approach, and the Enthusiast, a brilliant and ASCII art-laden email newsletter. The folks behind No Shame, a distro that highlights work by people of color, write about eight of their favorite zines. Across the water there’s Another Subculture, an annual audio mag released on cassette in the UK: editor Ben Perkins expounds on the nature of capturing the moment and keeping the thrill of zinemaking alive in audio. Down in Barcelona, Mierda editor Dani Frutos goes head to head with interviewer Paco Mus on everything from Barcelona punk’s tenuous relationship with Europe and the world to anarchism and Catalonian independence.

There’s also an interview highlighting the Finnish Fanzine Archive, a project digitizing over 300 Finnish fanzines dating from 1977 to 1982. Rounding it out is a feature collecting almost half a dozen current video zines, your favorite columnists, all the reviews you can possibly bear to read, and a photo spread from Everything Is Not OK Vol. 2. Don’t miss it.

This is brute and heavy bulldozer crust from Melbourne, Australia going berserk on this 6 tracks. EXTINCT EXIST features members of NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR, PISSCHRIST and ABC WEAPONS at work and you might get a hint where this journey will take you. This is no blunt D - Beat , but rather the old " Peaceville , Metal , Punk " school just like "The sound of at blood encrusted war- machine running rampant in your living room"

Another classic rereleased! CHAOTIC END formed in 1989 were the greek answer to AMEBIX and played a similar style of ultra heavy, atmofearic but shredding political crust and hardcorepunk.In my opinion they were one of the most convincing bands of that genre. This is their one and only vinyl-output they did in 1993 on Wipe Out Records.